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Simple Ways to Manipulate Light in Outdoor Portraits

By Lina Esways


With breakthroughs in modern technology, it is becoming easier and easier for people to learn to take nice, quality pictures themselves. DSLR's (Digital Single Lens Reflex) are available for affordable prices.

These cameras can keep up with the best of them when you have the right filters and lenses. In fact, you will see many professional photographers in Las Vegas using them on site.

As that is the ultimate goal of many photographers, they don't often complain as the work is appreciated. What most of these consumers don't realize, is that taking outside portraits can be a very difficult times

Taking pictures outside offers a diverse problem to photographers: lighting. Properly lighting a room is easy once you have the basic set-up complete.

You need to learn to manipulate light. This doesn't just mean having your audience stand in the right spot.

Engagement photos are important to a wedding mostly because of their appearance on the wedding invitations but they can also serve another purpose.

There are two things you need to know how to manipulate in order to help some of the worst lit situations work just fine. The first is the shutter speed.

The shutter speed determines how long it will expose your camera's sensor to the scene it's capturing. You could make it open and shut in a matter of milliseconds.

On a sunny day, you can't place the subject of your photo between you and the sun as direct sunlight will make their features indistinguishable. You can't put the sun to your back either as it will wash out their faces.

Side shots are hard too since half the body is illuminated and the other half is in shadow. It's frustrating how difficult it can be to get the lighting right for a portrait shot outdoors.

The longer the sensor is exposed, the more light will come into the picture, making the scene come to life. The only risk you run into with such low settings is blurring moving objects.

Themes can be fun to work out and can tie the photos together but whether an exact theme is chosen by the couple or not they must still decide on a concept or general idea of what they want their photos to include.

It is less beautiful when you leave your shutter open for 15 seconds and someone in the picture starts scratching their belly. The hand and body blur, making the picture almost useless.

The second function of the camera is the aperture. This is the hole in front of the sensor that lets light pass through it.

It even darkens some of the background elements, making your subject stand out more than ever before. Most cameras allow you to change the intensity of the flash so play around a bit with those settings to get the perfect picture. Finally, in well sunlit situations, you can use a reflector to spread out the light.

Using the same principle as the flash, reflect readily available light to spread it around the face of your subject.

They are measured in f-stops. F-1 is the largest hole and it moves down the line to f32, the smallest hole.

Announcing your engagement to world can be an exciting and fulfilling event and the photos taken to immortalize this event should be equally exciting and fulfilling which can only be accomplished by proper planning.




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